Check out this great piece on Culturehall Feature Issue 51, August 25-September 7. SOCIAL PLACES It features former Art and Social Practice MFA student Eric Steen and also mentions Open Engagement. Image: Eric Steen, Glasgow Beer and Pub Project

Article on The Age.com about Harrell and the Art and Social Practice Program at PSU.

The Event: A tour of Wealth Underground Farm, a gourmet dinner w/ drinks, and then a thought provoking movie, all to benefit a small local farm in your community! The Farm: We are a small CSA farm growing a variety of organic vegetables, fruits, and flowers, working to strengthen the community and local foods economy [...]

Profile: BECAUSE OF PSU… “I helped strangers complete their building and art projects.” — Zach Springer, Master of Fine Arts Zach Springer Degree: Master of Fine Arts What’s next: Teach art and continue his collaborative art projects Zach Springer loves to help people make and fix things. As a Master of Fine Arts student, he [...]

touch_sanitation_lowres-banner Condensations of the Social Curated by Sara Reisman Pablo Helguera, Portland State University’s Social Practice MFA Program, Mary Mattingly, Mladen Miljanovic, Tim Rollins + K.O.S., and Mierle Laderman Ukeles Exhibition dates: June 19 – August 1, 2010 Artists’ reception: Saturday, June 19, 5 – 8 pm Image: Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Touch Sanitation, 1978-80. City-wide [...]

Build Something Together Workshop Series this weekend at SEA Change Gallery, 625 NW Everett Street PDX. Come check it out! The workshop schedule is as follows: May 1 – Build Something Together Workshop Series pt.1 12:00 Sandwich Making with Crystal Baxley 1:00 Micro Terrariums with Vanessa Robertson-Rojas 2:00 How To Ask Questions with Ally Drozd [...]

Harrell will be speaking at this two-day conference that will bring together international artists, curators, and writers to discuss and debate the changing relationship between art and education. Speakers have been invited to present critical ideas on collective and participatory practice, pedagogical experiments and how such art can be understood and discussed. Deschooling Society takes [...]

We are currently in the process of planning Shine a Light: A Night at the Museum at the Portland Art Museum for the second year in a row. The event consisted of six hours of performances, installations, tours, workshops, and games by artists from Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice concentration MFA. The projects [...]

The low-residency Art and Social Practice MFA program is a unique combination of mentorship, community collaborations/partnerships and an annual conference on socially engaged art practice at PSU that brings together artists, curators, scholars and students from around the world. This program blends critical and professional engagement with social engagement on a global and local scale. [...]